Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features

Ben Schoon | Mar 1 2026 - 9:10 pm PT

Following rumors swirling for quite some time, Motorola has announced a partnership with GrapheneOS that will see the privacy-focused, de-Googled version of Android pre-installed on upcoming Motorola devices.

A new “long-term partnership” between Motorola and GrapheneOS was announced at MWC 2026 today, with plans for both a future smartphone to have GrapheneOS pre-installed, and certain features from GrapheneOS coming to other Motorola devices, the company said in a media briefing in Barcelona.

In a press release, Motorola says:

Motorola is introducing a new era of smartphone security through a long‐term partnership with the GrapheneOS Foundation, the leading nonprofit in advanced mobile security and creators of a hardened, operating system based on the Android Open Source Project. Together, Motorola and the GrapheneOS Foundation will work to strengthen smartphone security and collaborate on future devices engineered with GrapheneOS compatibility.

…In the coming months, Motorola and the GrapheneOS Foundation will continue to collaborate on joint research, software enhancements, and new security capabilities, with more details and solutions to roll out as the partnership evolves.

It’s unclear what features Motorola will be bringing over from GrapheneOS. As for a device with GrapheneOS installed, Motorola says this is a future release, and it’s not yet known exactly what that device will be. GrapheneOS developers have previously said that existing Motorola devices do not yet meet the software’s hardware requirements.

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As it stands today, GrapheneOS is exclusively available on Google Pixel devices. Whatever device Motorola is building with GrapheneOS, it’s beyond even the Motorola Signature’s specs, which is currently the “flagship” in Motorola’s lineup, as even that doesn’t meet the needed requirements.